The North Atlantic Council met today at Turkey’s request to hold consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty, which states that “the parties will consult whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence, or security of any of the parties is threatened.”

Today in Brussels President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah met with Foreign Ministers from NATO, operational partner nations and Afghanistan. They discussed final preparations for NATO’s engagement in Afghanistan from 2015 and issued the following joint statement.